ADVERTISING RATES 31 1 am. moe. 0 mo■ Iyr. One Scra,... , 1,50 1.75 3.50 6.60 12.00 TV.b . . 1.00 9.511 0.50 9.00 25.0 0 ?hrs. Squire■ 4.50 5.25 9.00 17.00 25.00 81.1401irm. • • 11.50 17.00 25.00 45.09 Quertor Column . • . 13.00 22.00 40.00 60.00 Half column . . 20.00 10.00 80.00 110331 Ono Column ; . 30.00 00.00 110 00 200.1)) Professional Card. 81.00 per lino per year. Administrator's and Auditor'. Notices, 83.00 City Notices, 20 Cents per line let humiliate 15 centa par no each subsequent insertion. Ten line. agate constitute n squire. • , ROBERT IREDELL, JR., PuntasirEn, =I coat anb ildttubcr A . FILBERT. E. OTTO. R. Y. OTTO. O. W. 011.1.00 FILBERT. OTTO d MILLER, MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN LUMBER, W LIAAMS PO Pa, PA MILL ON CANAL. WEST OF MAY NARD STREET OFFICE AT TILE MILL W F CRANE AORSJ, JAS. BE RITTER. CHAS. W. ABBOTT. OWEN REEFER JORDAN STEAM 6 ., II 1(moil. PLANING 'MILT , SASH, DOOR, AND BLIND MANUFACTORY, Union Street, near Jordan Bridge, Allentown, RITTER, ABBOTT & CO., MANUFACTURERS OF Sash, Doors, OatsPle Blinds, Inside 11((ads tags, Brackets Batltxtrin, Pickets. Stair Rail fags. Window Frames. Door Frames. Blau,! Windows, Black In/ bolt Mouldings, AT. SCROLL SAWING • TURN] No. PLANING,. MATCHIN FL G. FLOORING and RIPPING = ALSO, STAIR BUILDING done and BAND RAILING made to order. Haying now had almost three yearn' possession of tho Mill, refurnished It altered wholly with new 1111.1 improv• nil machinery, and having none hut experienced work man, ma Itrn prepared todefy competition from at 1101110 and abroad, both in price end workmauship. Do you contempt eta bnibllng f Cell et our Factory and "alleyyourself with a personal es:mein:Wow Drewinge for buildings, brackets, patterns for °ma ntel:lth' work, scrolls for porches, eau be seen at all times by ettlilug at our office. Any Inform:Won to the builder f arul.hod cheerfully nail freely, by calling at the Maim (Artery, ou Union street, et the .Torden Bridge, Alleu• t Pa.. or by letter through the post ogle, !tug 3-Iy] BITTER. ABBOTT St CO R EVIVAL I! • The nubscribere having teamed the "01,1 Hot, Coal Yard," an d t he announce to the c Allentown and the public in general, that they havejust got • enporlor woortineut of COAL Constoting of Store, Egg, Chootuut aud Nut from too BUCK MOUNTAIN MINES. Ordora loft with A. A. Ilubor, Slettor A llottoustolo, nl tbo Earle Hold, Kuno Rolling Mill, or t l m Tord will he attended to In n BUSINESS like manner. Orders for Coal by the ear Med at short noticr the lowest prices. Alwayx on hood it largo stock of BALED HAY, ME= L. W. KOONS & CO Wt the" Old (lope Cool Yard ilamilton Street, corner of Lehigh Valley Railroad lEl3= I, W. KooNe oct ti A NEW FllOl AND NEW UMBER YARD TO BUIDLERS! TREXLEIL & WEAVER Would hereby nupoquce to the public that they have tun opened a new 'Lumber , t rd on the spacious and eon v.:lntent grounds no loon orropted by• TnExl.Elt BRO.'S on Hamilton street, near Tenth, north onto, whero they aro now prepared with a fall assortment of everythlng portaluleit to the buoiness, comprising in part YELLOW PINE, WHITE PINE, SPRUCE and IIEH• LOCK FLOORING, WHITE PINE BOARDS, SCANTLING nod PLANK of elixir. and well seasoned. • . FRAMING TIMBER. hul , erior HEMLOCK JOIST awl SCANTLING or n.oted CEDAR, CYPRESS AND WHITE PINE !SHINGLES of extra quality. HEMLOCK .‘ed SPRUCE PLASTERING and SHING LING LATHS, I,lola litre 11.1..1,111.1110P WF,ATII Eltl.3oAlt NG, almo WHITE OAR PLANK aud llMUlattOttiMin= • WHITE PINE and SPRUCE PALiN(Iii ;tug PICKETS, superior to anything In the market WHITE I'INE and HEMLOCK FENCE RAILS, WHITE . . „. MENI=E=IMMI All deAronn of purchasing Lumber to tin good advantage an Ia offered at any oilier Yard In the county, tire request ed to call and ex'atalue.our Mock before put chasl ug eine where. Satisfaction Guaranteed in Quality and Price. TLa doulor Inembt•rof (Ito firtit would hereby ..opros. uln thanks for past favors while o member of thn titan of Troxs ler Bros., and respectfully solicits a contlnnauro of the seine, prolnb•lna to apply, his host endeavors to ruder nattstavtlon to tall patrons or that New Yard, Itot , toctfully F.D. W. TILEXLEIt august II Silber Vatteb Mart SAMUEL K. NMYTxI, 721 Ci ESTNUT STREET, PRACTICAL. MANUFACTURER OF FINE BILVER PLATED WARE, I= Would respectfully announce, to 111 s patron,. that he Lein a full att.:U . of tho latest litylug.or DOUBLE AND TREBLE ELECTRO- PLATED WARE I=ll • Plated on Stickel and White Motols, suitable for family 'Ur CRY trade. Ac the quality of plating can only he known to Ito plat er, the purchaser must rely on the manufacturer's state ment; there being so much worthless ware in the market, all reptesented as treble plate, at prices Impossible to be 1011.1111 MC111(011. All his goods are marked "S. K. SMYTH." Call and examine the goods before purchasing elee• where. nrOLD WARE REPLATED._,O marls -IT earpct3 an Oil Ciotti. RICII AND ELEGANT CARPETS, OIL' cLurns, 8. C. FOULK. • NO. 11) S. SECOND ST., (First Carpet Store below Market, East side.) turtles attention to hie splendid nagorttneut of Imported • mallnoican CARPETS, tvldeb wi representedl von advance. Goods warranted asno that all eau buy with sound, nor mai .1111bn:tie. nor 2341 gor the JFarntcr For Pure Water, thin celebrated Pin entirely tasteless durable and Tells. We: equal to the good old•fmbione wooden Pomp, Sc Cost lass than hal money.' Easily or so as to bo non•' and In construct! that any one cat keep It In repair. THE BEST AND CHEAPEST PUMP NOW MADE pANCOAST aC MAULE, THIRD AND PEAR STREETS, PIIILADELPLITA, ' PLAIN AND GALVANIZED WROUGI - IT IRON TUBES, Lap-welded Boiler Tubes, Beano and Iron Valves and Corks; Fittings for Ga., Steam and Water' Rough and Finished Brass Work: Oas and Steam Fitters' Tools. etc. Bath Tabs and Sinks. Bath hollers. Enamelled It's,l.l Stands. eta., Cotta of Tube; Steam Kettles d Traps. • Pipe of all Si:espied to Sketch. tiocc.sors to MORRIS. TASKER A Co.. ol CONTRA.CTORS For V~uorr LT in:lf.tl;,Colg;so7nl,l„l,ldS..toniu Retimates Purniolied Gratis. • rows VOL. XXV. AT ALLE NT 0 WN, 011 WEDNESDAY, Sepi. 20th. =I Stone Murray Circus GRAND FREE ATTRACTION Congress of Talented Artists. SE S vcroN OF THE PERIOD liEli2 ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRAORDINARY rupreced , nted Success of the Age Prior to the ,Ircas performitnce, and about 1 o'clock P.H. PROF. J. \\T. HAYDEN, Tho re,nw Led FtParn iEr)oaut, Nr 111 make a Grand Free Balloon Ascension, On the lot elloinlna ttin l'avillon All who de.lre enn b0b.,1,1 thit , ,ensation eratniton•ly. NI) expo.° ba ,, +t o , ' .ntde orovodon box been modo to gutted attithoo at chtentA. Six toonster (lave Le en r i. trurled. and ore rarriell with the Stone & Marray rreu, u..care.i k guaranteed dotty. when dating ai.egaut aria ni do' hip iwrilous JOURNEY BEYOND TILE CLOUDS E.'DOIIAMIIIIIT -1Y ==! 1141:1: II'ELBY COOK I?, (Firm Apreitrai.ge In Ainirlra.) the Champion Ilureicalan of England. = Tho only Slx-Itorse'dor In lho world '2II'L E ROSIN A , (Firet A rp•arauce in America ) !SS LPO I ELM.: W TSON, Premiere Emntrienne, ;In dazzling Foxts of gracofu Equitation, DEN STONE, Tho wall-known world's gtptt.‘st Jester. TOM PARRY, (Eh .t Appearance In America.) I I ' =I J/R. IL .1117 R R.l Y, And 1,0 performing Trick florreii. " :q`OT BSAUTT" and iil,Aul: First time to Il,b emiutry of the Comic Paillomime THE BEAR AND SENTINEL No xmokiwz. allowed. Car Poled Seto,. for Ladles. Doors Orel:lnt 1 and 7.,'clnck, P. 311 ADMISSION, CIIILDEEN, = stnl h taken Ware durintz the Ittllatlon of the Bal loon. tho gr,1,11 uct of the Intrepid and eceomptlelted Perteleh Art,te, THOS. tI'EA VER -tf .II'LLE JEANNETTE ELLSLER ON SLENDER WIRE CORD, On Iv hich she o from the ground to tho top of lb center 'mien.' letorn. fi , ot 1. ti illystartling in it nature. mid att.:then, the exciting feelings in th eholder. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 20th Also In Bethlehem, Tuesday, September 19tb I • KlltZtOWil, Thursday, September Slat Tlehets for sale at the FrleclensboteliookStore eep6 Ste• nep14.1341 pItOPOSED AMENDMENT TO TIIE CONS TI TUI lON OF PENNSYLVANIA. JOINT ItESOIXTION ' Proposing an ,i»ollanicnt to the Constitution, of l'ennsylranith Re it 17,..terd Si, the Scoot, 'raft House of Repreeen• lath, of flu. Uotronoralrealth,if Pennsylvania in Gen crof - 44 couldi , met, That the following amendment or ' the Constitution of this Commonwealth be proposed to the people for their tulopti.,n or rejection, pursuant to the provhions of the tenth article thereof, to-wit : AMENDMENT. Strike out the S nth Section of the Sixth Article of tire Constitution. and Inert In lieu thereof the following : A Stale Treasurer Omit bo chosen by the qualified elector. , of the State, at such limes and for such term of nervier as Ault lie prescribed by law.' ' JAMES H. WEBB, • Speaker of the !louse of Representatives. WILLIAM A.•WALLACE, • Speaker of the Senate. Approved the fifownlit day of June, Aunt, Domini sue thousand eight hundred and seventy•oue• JOHN W. GEARY. Proptud an I certified for publication pursuant to tire Ten th Article of the Constitution. F. JORDAN, Secretary of the Commonwealth. OM" s.'" l . l=Vu t t l V,TuTP4 w .i e s9. h. tj T E3IAISTILE at ROSS' , Steck of WHITE 0001/8. LACES AND EMBROIDER. lES are not excellad I.y any hotpot In the ally, either In mnpletenese, variety, quality or cheapneas• PIQUES very_eholee. NOW arid meat dealrable FRENCH MUSLIM; AND FRENCH NAINSOOKS. TARLA TANS, ell colors 2105 QUITO NET, Pa yerde, 2 soda yorda wide. VICTORIA LAWNS. a new Invoke. 8611 CAM• lIRICS, SWISS 111171.1,4, PLAIN, PLAID AND STRIP ED N AINSOOKs PLAIN/Op BIRD. EYE LINEN, LINEN LAWNS..CAMIIIIICS, CUSTOII•2IADE SHIRT F'RON'D. most .elrrt stork of all hioda of Leone. A specialty lu CURTAIN NETS cad LACE CURTAINS, NEW HAMBURG EDOINGS & trisEnTmas almost ilttlY. Tun fall lIIWNyn find good fig•OHLOOIIt hero, and t the lowe, , t rates at which they eau be sold. All WHITE I'ItINIMINGS. • LINEN LACS ci15.1.A114 AND CUFFS. The h.at.e.t SETTS In the make OLIO Ink, 21t2 North Eighth St., Philadn. El TII E GREAT =I araza 50 Cents 25 Cents =I Will txlohli iu ALLENTOWN on 3 ,tibikb TRUTD, BEAUTY, AND 'LOVE The following beautiful poem was written by Rev. F. Weston Bartlett, rector of the Church of the Mediator, and published In " The Christian. Year" : 0 when shall we rine from the shadows that hover O'er life's checkered nathway,where'er we may turn 0 when shall WO sinners the tree Lightdiscover, And Truth without error In confidence learn ? 0 when shall bun Beauty, unman od by tranagresalou Rejoice ev',ry oulrit that dwells in her light,• Reflecting her Intge,C)here Faith nod C,,orecaloo Have Intruded tfailt r omer and taught him the right? D when s h all. the Love, that to holy, unending, And costing out fear, to delightful and pure, Nojenloney crnel or doubts with it bleoding,— Dwoll guest of our hearts and forever endure ? Thera coineth a day, and we wait its appearing. An Simeon watched for the Day-Star of old, When Truth in it. Beauty, and Love without fearing Shall biens with the richest of blenningn foretold. The Sun In Ilk glory slinll.lline forth forovor, no cloud hail be been nod no derknons deceive! Truth, Beauty, and Lose be one not to soy, And Mercy and Peace reward thorn who b dleve. DR. PECHAL'S THEORY Not long ago, the steamer Ecliptic brought to New York, among other passengers, n fat, frowzy man, rather short, and evidently a foreigner—though of what nationality, owing to his familiarity with languages, it was not easy to decide. Ile was not an engaging man, was supernaturally conceited, some said crazy. He wore a pair of unusually shiny spectacles—it was believed, to assist him in staring. His hair was long, tangled and sandy, overhanging his coat collar, and pushed hack behind his ears. His luggage consisted of a ragged, black carpet bag, which no one suspected of containing clothes. The captain himself was not sacred from the Intrusive impertinence of this• man. ' The second day out, at dinner, he stared uninter ruptedly for ten minutes at lhat officer, and then said : "You insist be a Scotchman !" The captain's little hobby was to be taken for an American; so he bowed somewhat stiffly, and continued his conversation with the American banker's wife at his right. The frowzy foreigner drew from his pocket a greasy note book, piloted his way throtigh several pages with his dirty forefinger, till he arrived at a certain entry ; then, with power ful assertativeness ; " You are forty-eight years old to-day !" The captain was a young-looking man, per haps not unwillingly so, especially in the eyes of his fair right hand neighbor. So he looked up rather severely at the foreigner, and said, gruffly : " Well, sir ?" " Of course," pursued the other, absorbed in Ins note book—"all here, sir. I calculated your group some time ago ; it comprises four, and possibly fyie, I met one last year in Tur key—a very pretty little girl. Whereabouts will you be seven weeks from to-day, cap- tain ?" The captain's patience began to grow thin ; but he commanded himself to reply, albeit somewhat testily ; " Give fair weather, off the southern coast of Ireland." The frowzy foreigner was 'charmed. He bubbled over with au unclean smile, his teeth were dreadful. " Right I quite right I" he exclaimed, rub. Ling his fat hands self•approvingly. " You will be drowned off that coast, sir ; steamer founder, or you are washed overboard—can not be sure which." At this sally every one, except the captain, either laughed or smiled. He, strange to say, turned pale and frowned slightly. The for eign lunatic calmly replaced. hia note-book, and resumed his dinner. Could it have been a coincidence that, seven weeks from that day, in a heavy sea off the southern coast of Ireland, Captain Mc- Alenny, of the Ecliptie,was washed overboard and lost 1 Curious, at all events. Moreover —though, what has this to do with it I—the little daughter of a prominent official in Con stantinople died the same day, after the crisis of a long and painful fever. The conceited foreigner was not, therefore, an agreeable companion. lie was no respee. tor of persons ; for he used up even a custom house officer in this wise : After transfixing him with an indignant. and prolonged glare of spectacles—" Why, you should have been dead two years ago. Your time expired in the summer of 1808. I saw one of your group condemned to be hanged for murder in June of that year, and I cannot be mistaken in you," said he, referring to his note book. The custom house °nicer glared back in savage amazement. "Ef 'twarn't Pray wife 'nd ckild'n," he began, menacingly ; but the fat foreigner's brow cleared up immediately, as if his mind were relieved from an immense load of perplexity. "My dear sir—to be sure ! llov could I, , - of all men, make such an oversight? And now I recollect, his sentence was commuted —inprisonment for life. Let me see—your wife? all, yes! - she belongs also with the young Frenchman; and that Jew, I think must be a connection. Well, well, sir, you're safe for six years yet." And the maniac de parted iu total apparent unconsciousness of the black wrath distorting the custom house officer's visage. Lauded in New York, he grasped his ragged, black carpet bag, and walked to the South Sea hotel. On his way he stopped to purchase a directory, and barely escaped be ing knocked down by the salesman because he informed him the only safe thing in his case was to marry ivcertain African lady, a resident of Guinea. Arriving at the hotel, he engaged a room for three days,•. and registered his name as Dr. Pechal from Belgium. Ile eyed the gentlemanly clerk seinchingly. "Your hair must be dyed, sir," said lie at last, firmly. The gentlemanly clerk drew himself uphau tily. The doctor glared, and shook lus frow sy head. No use, sir; it won't save you. No im mediate danger, however; your group e. mains till the next decade." In short, Dr. Pechal was not merely disa greeable, he was awful. De entered and locked the room door, open ed the black carpet bag and poured the con tents on the table—nothing but oil books! There was a volume of logarithms, life insu rance reports, works on phrenology and phy siology, metaphysical compilations:directories of various cities, and, at the very bottom of the brig, a large manuscript volume, winise contents only the doctor knew. Be placed thoseparaphernalia of research in a semicircle upon the table, seated himself in the concavity of the arc, and worked away steadily for at least three hours, concluding by writing down his results in the manuscript volume, and making an elimination thereof into the greasy note book. Then he leaned back, ran hie thick fingers into his hair, and ruminated. The manuscript book lay open on the table. It was entitled 'Todes•Gesetz,' which appellation, should it afford no en lightement to the reader, places him on an equality with, let uasay, nine people out of ten. It was tilled with closely written pages of mysterious and enigmatical import, in a dozen different languages, and, for the most part, ,unimportant to the present history. But the last entry, as transcribed into the greasy n etc book, may possibly be,some assistance. ALLENTOWN, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1871. Here it is " Group comprises four. Distribution—two to one each—in 'Belgium, America, possibly France, possibly Asia. " Distribution as regards sex—male, hyo ; female, two. " Incidence of law (as calculated from table of logarithms, " natural sine")—four days from date, subject to following impediments and exceptions : " 1. Amalgamation to have occurred be tween two of this group ; "2. Such amalgamation to take place with in the next four days, provided that— " Literal identity of surname exists between OEM! "Outside contracts no obstruction to law's course." Besides this, there were sundry personal descriptions and dates, and numerous referen ces, citations, and comments, which may as well be passed over for the present. It will be more to the point, and quite as discreet, to the doctor's ruminations : " Poor prospects, Emil,very poor 1 Allow ing the everything—that the person Is in New York, is a woman, Is unmarried,and iowilling to marry thee—still are the chances as to the literal identity and infinity against one. Ah, Emil I why didst thou shut thine eyes when Destiny offered thee all the most exact inter pretation could require—sex, name,-age con dition—all ? And she loved thee,Emil. Yes, my friend, but that was twenty years, ago ! Dadst thou but known then what thou know est now, thou Midst not then gone alone to seek thy fortune ! " And dost thou hope to find her here? As well ns another like her I Nay, even thetylost thou believe she would still care fur thee, Emil ?"t exclaimed the doctor,rising and going to the dressing table on which was erected a, small mirror. 0 Alai I thou art sadly chang ed I I fear she would tied death more attrac tive than thee." "But courage I" exclaimed Dr Pedl], again arousing himself from his deapondeney. " Let us persvere to the end ! One more at tempt, friend Emil, ere we say farewell to each other ! Let us use well the time that re mains to us !" . With which parting exhorta tions to the ample and lugubrious countenance in the mirror the doctor turned away, replaced his library in his carpet bag ; and it being al ready late, we will leave him in undisturbed possession of his room. Next morning having performed his arid toilet, this unpleasant and mysterious man appeared upon Broadway. The penetrating glare of his spectacles, as he shuffled onward, was ever and anon directed at some passing face, whenever it scented to come within the range of his weird and preternatural intelli gence. For himself such attention as he re ceived was not complementary. What a turning of tables, could they have recognized in this uncouth individual the Mall Wilo had reduced mortality to a working formula! lint their non appreciation troubled him not ; he was perhaps used to it. "laving reached the Fifth Avenue hotel, the doctqr paused, and looked about • hint somewhat wearily. What he sought was apparently no nearer than ever. For all that his destiny was even then upon him ; it was coming rapidly up the avenue in a spruce stage, with vivid medallions and golden scroll work on a deep ultramarine background. Yet, so unconscious did the doctor appear, that were it not an established fact that Destiny never makes a mistake in her appointments, and Is always punctual, it would teem a mere chance he did not miss her altogether. The stage contained but tine passenger—a charming young lady. To look at her•was refined and exquisite enjoyment. She was the flower of gentle breeding; and indescriba ble, scarcely perceptible armonia, peculiar to such flowers, hovered about her like an evan escent mist. The contrast between her very dark hazel eyes nud straight, fine eyebrows, and the amber tint of her crisp and vigorous hair, made her beauty more striking titan It would otherwise have been. Der complexion was clear and luminously pale, the skin drawn smoothly over the rounded flesh. All the re finement and fascination of her face seemed to culminate in a perfect little nose with delicate nostrils and pointed tip. The curve of her lips might have scented haughty, but that there hovered always about them the remem brance or the promise of a smile. Swayed by I know not what mysterious impulse this rare creature turned in her seat just as the stage was passing the upper corner of West Twenty-third street, ai.d looked straight at a foreign, ill-conditioned figure that happened at the moment to be standing there. The figure nt the same momma, raised n heavy and woe-be-gone countenance to the stage window, and the shining spectacles and dark, hazel eyes met. Perhaps the extreme of hu man nature presented no wider contrast. The young lady recollea with a refilled lit tle shudder. " What a dreadful thing !" Then she gay a startled little scream. For the drendla thing had suddenly frozen into an awful stare, rapidly shifting into no expression of wild delight. Lie had made a clumsy rush for the stage door, wrenched it convulsively open, and flung himself, panting und perspiring, upon the opposite seat. With : in the narrow limits of that Fifth Avenue stage extremes had met at last. Add what did the high-bred lady do? First impulse—scream for help, or spring from the vehicle ? But the next moment pride cast out fear—bullied it Into submission rather. Ten times more alarmed, by reason of her high• wrought organization than any ordinary per son could have been, no outward sign, save bloodless lips, betrayed it. She sat stern and motionless as a little statue, except that her heart beat so. • - _ It was all thrown away on Dr. Pechal. Ile was that moment too thoroughly impregnated with pleasurable emotions to admit of any other. sensation. ills first act, after recover ing wind, was to draw forth the inevitable pocket notebook. Front its pages to the pale little face and back again, he gazed with art • less delight, as if comparing an excellent like ness with the original. One might detect, moreover, in his expression,' the secret sell'• satisfaction of the successful artist. But,more skilful than his fellows, this Man had drawn his portrait first, and by its means discovered I the original afterward. The comparison satisfactorily concluded, the artist pocketed his work, and surveyed hiS sitter complacently. "How fortunate," he ejaculated, at last, "that you have turned out a woman! Ilad you been a loan—" The doctor seemed .loath to contemplate so fearful an alternative. "Crazy!" thought:the young lady, and an irrepressive shrver of horror ran through her. "But being a woman," resumed the doctor, forcibly, "affinity be well. Pray, take an inter est in mel Believe me, I am no stranger to you and our individual welfare depends exclusive ly upon each other." • • "Do I understand you to say you aro ac quainted with me, sir?" demanded she, catching at the first hopeful straw. "Alt, none better," replied the doctor. "You are not yet quite twenty—am I not fifty? You aro rich—ant I not poor? Your name in—" Here Alto doctor paused. The young lady's hazel eyes were blac with expectation. "Calephr hazarded the doctor, with an In einuating grin, yet with an undertone of an xlety in hie voice. The young lady started end blushed to the forehead. A moment she looked earnestly at the doctor with an indescribable expression; then burst forth into it most delicious little zimg "Well, now you must know toe, though I don't remember you, I'm sure. And how strange that he never spoke of you Other! lint no," blushing again; "I'm not that yet—only ➢label Chapel still. if you please sir," with .ravishing severity. "Chapel—Mabel Chapel," repeated the doc tor, reliving behind his spectacles. It seemed to be all he heard, as it was certainly all he understood of this remarkable little speech. "Chapel —ah, yes, yes; now, that certainly is wonderful!" And again a broad smile of de light disclosed those awful teeth. Then he recovered himsclf, and turnevl to address his lovely companion once more. But the rattle of the wheels over the Fifth Aven• on pavement drowned rest of the conversation for . he present. "Oh nursie, he was r dreadful !" said Ma bel, piteously, as old' Christina, the lime honored t'.omestic of the family was combing out her hair that evening. Christ na had had the sole care of Mabel's amber hair ever since, twenty 3' ours ago, there had been any such hair to be cared Gtr. " Thirk not of him, Mahan," advised the old lady. "He was sotne crazy runaway CM " That's what I thought at first," rejoined Mabel. " But, nursie, lie seemed tc know all about me, even my engagement. to Charlie, that no one knows, you know ; why," said Mabel, blushing at the recollection, " he addressed me as Mro. Caleph ; and when I told hint I wasn't married yet, the horrid thing said I must marry Ini—and right off, too, or we would b th lie dead I And then lie went on and talked shout all sorts of the strangest, most incomprehensible things, and read something to me oui of a dirty note•bcok he had 'about groups and the law, and distributions, and literal identities, and I don't know what else. Wasn't it terrible ?'." " But he isgone —he returns no more," said nursie, smoothly. "Ale, but he does return," said Mabel, dis consolately. "He's coming here tomorrow night ; said he must come anyway to get my answer. Think or it I And I told him to come, then, because Charlie will be here, you know, amt he can talk bi him." " What name has he, my Mabelein r quired Christina. "Oh, some•Gerumua mune ; I remember it reminded me somehow of your last name, n ursie—' Lapech.' There was a pech' about it, and oh, yes, I know, it was Pechnl—Dr. Pechal." Christina startled so that, fOr almost the first tinio in her life, she pulled Mabel's hair. " Ali !" screamed Mabel ; then, catching sight of the old lady's face in the mirror, "why uursie dear. what's the matter ?" "Nothing, my Liebachen, nothing ; only that the name reminded old Christina of a time —long before thou' was born, islabelein—w hen she, too, was engaged to be married. Ah, that was a happy time !" sighed music. "Tell me all about it, dear," said Mabel, persuasively ; all matters of the heart were to her of paramount interest and appearance, " There is little to tell, Liebehen. lie was stout, handsome and brave; he wore a stu dent's cuib and fought with the Schlager. He was wise also ; he knew more than all the pro. fcssors, And he loved Christenchem ; and to me it was very dear,'' said the old lady, simply. "But why didn't you marry him ?" de manded Mabel. "Ah that is a sad history, Mitbelein. Thou knowest we once were wealthy, and had rank. But a time came—we had lost our fortune-- we were poor and unfortunate. But he was brave ; he said : " I will go, Christinchen,and see. Ivi ill make a fortune for us all." And te went and I never after saw him, and I think te died, for I believe not he would ever forget ds Christinchen." "Poor, dear old musty," said the tender warted Mabel, with tears standing in her " And was this before you came sweet 03e.- MIS "Yes, Liebchen ; your father and mother were then boarding at our house ; and your dear mother, who is now dead, liked me and I her ; so, when you went away, she took me to be nurse and help her. I said ; "If he comes, I must leave you." But he never came and I am always here." "Poor, dear old nursie," thought Mabel again, an hour later, as she lay with her cheek upon her band, waiting for sleep. " And she never told me of it before I Well, some day perhaps lie will come back and marry her, and then she will Leas happy 113---/ shall be" Do pleasant dreams always go by contra ries? "Do you mean to say, sir," demanded Charlie, who sat with Mobel's little trembling hand " that you have evolved the law which regulates the time, place and circum stances of the death of every human being ?" "It Is precisely that," replied Dr. Pechal, charmed at being so,well understood. "Were the soon, not so dark, sir, I would ask you to look over toy little book: All is explained ES The doctor, calling Into in the evening, had come upon Mabel anti Charles Caleph sitting together in the dusk ; and being a somewhat abrupt gentleman, ho had entered upon his business at once, without waiting even for candles. "But how do you know your law is truer asked Mabel, defiantly. "Is it not, then, logical ?" said thn doctor. " The insurance companies have gone so far as to establish the average age at which death comes ; if a man die here at sixty,somewhere must die a boy of twelve, that the balance may preserved. Is it probable that thls bal ance should relate to age alone ? Is there not also the balance of one sex against the other, of light against dark,of nation against nation, cf temperament against temperament ? Nut even hero can we draw the line ; the farther we search, the more the conditions that arise; no trait, however subtle ; no feature, howev er undignifled—but bears directly, however lightly, upon man's destiny. What could he more clear, more inevitable?", Charlie and Mabel were silent ; a strange chill seemed creeping around their hearts, 'the doctor's voice, all apparently remaining of him in the darkened room, sounded solemn and mysterious as he gave utterance to the which had been all his life revolving. Wholly bound up in the contemplation of his awful theory, his words were nit — Without an int pressiveness even more powerful than ordi nary eloquence... • . "It is indeed strange,"-•resumed he, "that mankind, continually prying after the myste ries of science and the laws of life, should never have set themselves to learn .the most important and yet the simplest law which tells them when they arc to die, and who shall die with them. For no . man dies alone. There le a mysterious chain, formed of 'innu merable and Invisible links, binding his life to that of others, be their number more or less. He Is•oue of a group; and the breaking of thiQme chain is the dissolution of their coin- Mar life." • " Can nothing binder this law—if it be a law ?" demanded Charlie. "It is seldom possible," replied the doctor. "The only safety Hello marriage, which con stitutes a new'condition of things—annulling the old. But it must be no ordinary marri age. To be efficacious, the most exacting conditions have been fulfilled. Of the many, it is only needful I should mention two ; the husband and wife must belong to the same 'group, an i it n u.n s most he composed of the same letters, dilterently arranged. And this," added the doctor, "bears upon my er rand to•night." Mabel shuddered, and drew nearer to Char lie, who poss.,' his al m mound her waist. Dr. Pechnl proceeded : " I have tii,cov. n d, by the mist exhaustive calculations, that before this hour to-morrow my death, awl that of all my group, Is ties tined to take place. My calculations Mao showed that one at leastof the group must be n resident of this city. I knew there were but three besides myself; one, whom I was per sonally acquainted with"—the doctor cleared his threat—"was not be thought of, though Elie once might have saved us all ; of the two others remaining,onc I knew to be a woman, and, trusting she might be the New Yorker, I came here to seek her, and in the person of this young lady I have found her, She is a member of my group ; and she, ns her name proclaims her is destined to save us both by uniting her destiny to mine. Analyze our names—you find them literally Identical ; and for the rest; the proofs are easy and irrefraga bk." Here the doctor paused, and, holding out one of his fat htulds, seemed duskily to sum mon Mabel from her lover's side. Charlie groaned, and removed his arm from her waist ; but hers was around his neck In an in stant, and her voice was clear and firm : " Whether your hateful theory be a truth or a falsehood, neither it nor you shall ever part us. Do you suppose I care so much for soy life here ns•to sell, for its sake, all that is most sacred and precious to me ? You have much to learn, with all'your wisdom. Did it never occur to you that there is a Life, somewhere, which no theory of yours can ever reach ? And that:very death, by which you seek to enslave 1110, shall be the means of my triumph over You!" The doctor was awe ,stricken and silent, and Charlie, who could scarce believe this to be the modest and tender little girl whom he had loved, and thought he knew, looked up at her wills a reverence ho had never felt be fore. " You are right, darling," he murmur ed, but sighing heavily, " Death is better than such a life as that." "It is hut an alternative of death," she answered, " one of the body, the other of the soul. But do not sigh, my love. What this man says is false; no divine law could autho- rize such a consummation. I do not believe his theory !" • At this, Dr. Pechal, who had been edging toward the door, advanced again into the room, and spoke with emphasis " You say you do not believe my theory ? Very well. The proof Is at any rate easy. Twenty-four hours will show ; and I, at least, am ready to die in defense of what I have spent all my life to verify." As he turned to depart the door opened, admitting a glare of light—Christina with two tall wax candles. The doctor was dazzled, and shaded his taco with his hand. Christina looked keenly nt him as she placed the can dles on the table. " It is already so dark, Mullein," said she, "and as the gentleman Is here," turning to the doctor, thought the candle would be very pleasant to you." At the sound of tier voice, Dr. Pechal started, and seemed strangely agitated. lie peered earnestly at the speaker through Ills spectacles. " You may go, Christina," said Mabel. "Christina," cried the doctor, in a tremu• loos voice. "Christina ! Christina Lapech can it be thou.?" lie stretched toward her his stumpy hands, which shoolt as if, with an ague. Christina gazed at hies ns if he' were n ghost. At last she gavd a low cry, pathetic and loving. " Alt ! Emil, my own Emil ! after twenty years, hest thou come back to me ?" And what did these ridiculous old creatures proceed to do, but fell Into each other's arms and blubber like two children ; putting the younger lovers to the blush with the fervor of their emotions, bursting freshly through the cerements of a lifetime. So the candles had at least as much -to do with Dr. Pechal's destiny as the omnibus. Several other dusky points were also illumi nated by their light. As soon as he had re covered himself, and things had begun to set the doctor recognized in Charley ()aleph the fourth member of the group. • " A remarkable coincidence !" and, after n moment's reflection, Sir, ! have not yet learned your name—exupt the first one. What is the last ?" " Why, Dr. Pechal !" exclaimed Mabel, in large-eyed 'wonderment, "how can you help knowing his name, when you addressed me In the omnibus as Mrs. Caleph ?" Upon which it transpired that the doctor bud in fact, known 'nothing either of her name or engagement; but had hazarded a name con taining the same letters as his own, feeling that in case it turned out lobe the correct ono lie could luy a strong claim to theposession Of her hand.' Time little claim at cross purposes which had ensued, ending in a resolution which answered his purpose equally well, had banished the first guess from his mind. Now, Sae the reader has long ago divined, Its appear ance as the surname of our friend Charlie at once established his right to Mabel by the ru ling of that very law which had nt first seen:- ed ea adverse to their happiness. And Dr. Pechal, it is needless to remark, was more than ready to forego his claim in one whom he' already regarded with ridiculous awe, for the sake of her who, lost through so many years, he had long ago given up as mar ried and done for. "And thon art rewarded for thy constancy, Chi istenchen;" said the old hypocrite, sententiously; "for, hadst thou been married, and our union impossible, so also wood have been the preservation of our lives." Charlie's eyes had a quiet twinkle in them; he was thinking what a constant man the doctor had been lately. "The law has been very lenient to all ofus,", perorated the doctor; "seldom do all the mem bers of a group possess the qualifications for intermarriage, or the opportunity to profit by the privilege if they have it." "I'm afraid, doctor," said Charlie, "you'll never fogive those unfortunate candles for de priving you of the chance to prove your theory c)rrect; though even yet, if you Insist upon; it, it Is not too late." "No, no!" said. Dr. Pechal, rather gruffly "after all, there would be no satisfaction In it; for not one of you would remain alive long enough to confess yourselves convinced." Anti, ns far as they are concerned, the the ory still lacks confirmation."—Julian Haw thorn in Appleton't+ Journal. Agricultural fairs arc a great success this year. Jay Cook's income is so large that he has . difficulty in its investment. Real estate Is sill to be advancing in Scranton. The Pennsylvania railroad, between Phil. adeiphia and. Pittsburg,:is 054 miles long, and has 70 stations. Philadelphia takes the WI as as the manu facturer of the most superior ready made clothing produce in the world. 6=ll SUSAN KING. The Now American Tea Importer— The Story of an Energetic Woman. V. Y. Correeponacnce Iloyleltoton Intelligencer.) Perhaps the citizens of your county will be interested in some account of Miss King—our new American tea importer—and her adventu rous trip to the Celestial Empire some fifteen months ago. It will he remembered the metro politan press announced the departure . of a single lady, who had just started on a business mission to China. From the first the enterprise was made piquantly Interesting by a Sort of mystery regarding her plans and ultimate designs. It was known that she was going alone, and that she was going for tea ; it was even intimated that this first bold step would prove but the initiative in a grand commercial experiment, but beyond that the community were kept most provokinkly in the dark. The ,lady said her farewells and took up her jour ney while people pondered in amazement over the novel expedition. A year and three months have passed and she is again among us, after a most interesting excursion around the world. And now, since the trip was a successful one, the result of which ehablesthe original project to he put into execution, the ban of secrecy is removed, the history of the whole enterprise is laid bare, and approving listeners are called upon to applaud this noble effort on the part of one woman to oponup a fresh avenue of commerce for the benefit of her sex. The name of Susan King is widely known throughout the city. She is now a rich wo man; but when she came here, many years ago, she brought only a guitar in her hand and twenty-five cents in her pocket. Yet oven at that early a,g , her remarkable enterprise was apparent. She put up at the best hotel the city then boasted of, and started out at once in search of music scholars, so representing her case to the families called upon that within twenty-four hours she had engaged her class, received'Oayment in advance, and returned to her hotel in a carriage with forty six dollars In her pocket. The best point in the undertaking, however, re mains to bo told. Though representing her self as a professor of music and the originator of a special theory of instruction, she had In fact so limited a knowledge of the science as to be obliged to hire a teacher to carry out her plans, and was the first, as well as the last, to institute a method of musical instruction by proxy. This little incident will convey an idea of the peculiar character of the woman. Her Ally years of active life have been spent In making money. Business Is her speciality. She has dealt largely In real estate and is now a millionaire. The enterprise which promises to lead new lustre to her name found its pro jector in Madame Demorest, of fashion cele brity. On the suggestion of Miss King this lady conceived the idea ofputting her friend's money to a gond use. Many things were thought of and talked of, but as readily dispos ed of because of their impracticability. The question, " What would furnish profitable ern ployment.to the greatest number of women?" was repeated over and over again, and finally found its solution in a most feminine way— at the bottom of a good cup of tea. The deci sion was arrived at on Thursday of one week and by Monday of the next Miss King had ' taken out her letters of credit, bought ten thousand dollars' worth of gold for traveling expenses, and set out on her solitary way. Ar rived at San Francisco, she spent a few weeks there learning what she could of the country for which she was bound, and then set sail for Yokohama. . Her letters of Introduction carried her, of course, into the highest circles of English speaking Japan. She at once entered the home of Sir Harry Parks, the British minister who, with his wife, expressed the most cordial sym pathy with her undertaking, and offered to do everything in its power to assist her. Sir Harry offered her a military escort of two hundred man in her journey through the in terior of the country, but refusing all guar dianship or protection she took her sedan chair and coolie servants and went forth alone. As ignorant of the topography as of the lan guage of the country, her situation would seem to picture itself a decidedly embar rassing one ; but the woman who had battled poverty and overcome the hardships of youn ger days was not to be daunted now. She quickly perceived that to assimilate herself to the natives was her safest method .of procedure. To be sure fish oil and rats were not the most tempting articles of food nor did a seat on the floor with chop-sticks in hand suggest very much of the refine ment of home ; yet all of these became pos -1 Bible in time, and as a consequence she was permitted to penetrate regions never before trodden by stranger feet. In many places this venturesome woman was received as a divine impersonation. They worshipped her, they offered her every honor conceivable to their bewildered minds, and followed her through the streets of their cities in such dense thrOngs that she was once or twice obliged to implore the interference of the magistrate to preserve her from suffocation. Presents and gorgeous entertainments were forced upon her at every stopping place. In short, she became the object of universal interest and admiration. Herself an adventurer and seeker after curiosi ties, she became the most curious of all, and for once, at least, since the days of Confucius, a woman succeeded in awakening the pro found attention of the Celestials. The tomb 1 of Confucius, by the way, was a most interes t ling point In Miss King's pilgrimage. But .the chief object of this mission is not to be lost sight of. Tho purchase of teas began with the earliest opportunity and continued until she finally embarked on her homeward voy age, by the Cape of Good Hope and Atlantic Ocean. Besides making arrangements for a supply of any amount of the best quality that is grown, she has planted a "grove" of her ! own, from which she expects in lour years lo get her first crop. Meanwhile she has brought with her seventeen tons of samples. "The Woman's American Tea Company" is fast getting into shape. ' A warehouse, to be loca ted on Broadway,between Tenth and Twenty third streets, is being negotiated for, and In the course of two or three month this new establishment will open its doors to an honest and enterprising woman. It is designed to employ a corps of travelling agents at a gen erous salary, while it is presumed that the trade of the city will require a goodly number of employes, every one of whom is to be a woman. Projected, matured, and carried out solely by the fair sex, it is proposed to make th is enterprise in every source a fair one. Fair salesmen, fair tea, and fair prices: the very best the market affords, "pure and unadulterated, at $1.50 per pound." Pennsylvania Is one of the best markets iu the country for the sale of patent-rights. 'A Bradford county man raised fifty-four bushels of wheat on one acre this harvest. The Pennsylvania railroad, owing to its safety, is the great cattle transporter. It hauls more live stock eastward than any road In the land. Texas will sell 1,000,000 head of cattle this year. A Son Francisco Pole blew his poll off with a pistol. They talk of running a clergyman for Mayor of Chicago. ' A cemetery in Rhode Island is so prosper ous that a dividend of seven per cent. has j us been declared. ROBERT IREDELL, JR Vain attb gawp 3011 Printer, No. 603 HAMILTON STREET, =I LATEST STYLES Stamped CheckP, Cards, Circular., Paper Book. Cons talon. and Br.Larra, School Catalogue... Bill 'road. Envelopes, Letter Head• Bllla or Lading:W*7 Tap. and Shipping Card.. Poster...rang i.e. etc., etc., Printed at Short :Statical NO. 37. ANOTHER DOTHEBOYS HALL, fierfott. Charge.• Agatest the Management of the Simplot { - alley Home—A Reverend Toe. term, , 13INGITAMPTON, N. Y., Sept. 9.—Much ex citement prevails hero concerning the charges of cruelty preferred against the Rev. Mr. Van Epps, Superintendent of the. Susquehanna Valley Home, a charitable institution for chil dren: One of the inmates, Frederick Bow man, aged nine, was found a week ago with a heavy log of wood chained to his neck, and two Committees, ono of nine gentlemen and the other of ten ladies, - are now engaged in examining the affairs of the Home. A war rant has been Issued for the arrest of Van Epps, who is in Boston. The Principal Charges are made by a respectable widow, Mrs. Mary Backnr rn, who worked at the Home for a month, and then left because she could not endure to see the inmates abused as they were. She has two children in the Institution, a boy of 7 and a girl of 13. Before Van Epps was placed In charge she says they were treated well, but his treatment of them has been so brutal that she intends to remove them as soon as she can. He and some of his assistants habitually knock the children about, and have been known, for the merest trifles, to order the shoes and stockings oft of little boys and girls in winter, and make them walk about in the snow. One boy, who had just recovered from a fever last winter, did something that displeased the Superintendent, and was made to and stockings, and walk for an hour around a hole dug in the snow. Thjs woman said the Superintendent one day made a boy stand a long time with a lieavy wooden chain on his head, as a punishment for some offence. For slight reasons, it is said, the children are de prived of their meals, and, at hest, arc not provided more than half enough to eat. This woman also affirms that she has known the portion of the building occupied by the children to be so cold in winter that several of them had 'their toes frozen. Another favorite mode of punishment adopted by the Superin tendent was to take offenders into the cellar, and, whether boys or girls, strip them and dash lee•cold water over their bodies. She ssys she asked for her children last spring, but the President, Dr. Orton, told her that they did not want any more children taken out be fore bill, because the institution would soon rim down if they continued to 1M children go away. She says Van Epps has forbidden children seeing their parents except once a month, upon a day appointed for all, and then no mother can see her children alone, Pa rents had the privilege heretofore of calling on their children whenever they desired, at suita ble hours. Mrs. Anna Parks had two children at the Home, a girl and boy, aged 7 and 0. Hearing complaints that they were ill-treated, she suc ceeded, after considerable trouble and delay, in getting her little girl away, but the buy she was forced to leave. The children have a public dinner every year, and on the Fourh of July last, when the procession was march ing to the place where the dinner was to be given, she got her boy out of theline and took him home. He said he had been a subject of the water -punishment, did not receive enough to cat, and was nearly frozen in winter. are generally believed by the public, and popular opinion is decided against Van Epps and the Home. Both of these women speak in-the highest praise of the institution when It was under the management of Samuel Lee ; but Mrs. Hance, who bad charge before Van Epps, is charged with being very cruel to the children. Mr. Lee says that the Bowman boy, to whom the log was chained, was at the Home while he was superintendent, and he never had any trouble with him. N. V. Noys, one of the Investigating Com mittee, has resighed his position, and made n public statement, in which ho defends Van Epps, and his administration of affairs at the Home. He says that he does not see anything out of the way In the Superintendenl's treat ment of the Bowman boy, as lie himself has "been unable to think of any means of re straint w hioh would have been se effectual,and at the same time cause so little suffering, as the plan adopted by Mr. Van Epps:" • This state ment has met with general disapproval. Desperate Fight with Wild Cats. Therewero a day or two ago on exhibition at Campus Martins in Detroit, two paws which once belonged to two wild nits, each of the feet being armed with claws that no one could feel of without a small chill creeping up his back. For three or four months past farmers living in Brownstown and Huron townships„. Mich., have been very much annoyed by the two 'animals, who inhabited a swamp in the latter township, or at least made for the place whenever pursued. Last Sunday three men mounted their horses and rode to the swamp, having each a dog along. For several hobrs after arriving there • they beat about the place without discovering any signs of • the animals but at length one of the dogs, which was pros pecting In thoswamp on . his own account, suddenly set.up a fearful yelling and howling, and came to 'the men with his back well scratched up. The other dogs made for the spot and drove the feline out out of the swamp and up a tree, where she was dispatched by a ritie-shot. Supposing the animal to be the one calming all the damage, the farmers had no idea of the presence of another. They were seated under a tree eating a cold bite, When a male cat, considerably larger than „tho,, one slain, came out of the swamp and attacked a dog which was just then lapping water at a small pond. In a second hair was flying like thistle down inn gale, and Or other dogsioin cd in. In two minutes, and while the men were picking up their guns and running to the spot, one of the dogs was disabled by the cal, and the other two refused to close in again, running around in a circle. As the men came up the cat leaped for Mead, fastening to his leg, and the sudden attack threw him down. Ile tried to shoot, but could not, and for some time his friends found no safe opportunity, until at length one of them knocked the beast over with the gun, and then shot him through as he was returning to the attack. The - shot only disabled the animal, and after receiving it he was still a match for both dogs unUI shot through the head. Both of the animals were stated to be of very large size, and their paws were proof that no dog had any business get ! tit% in front of the dagger•ilke claws which adorned them. While the cat which attacked Mead was hanging to his leg it tore his . boot leg Into strips with its bind claws, and would have been more than a match for him alone., When Washington took command of the' American army at Cambridge, he came all the way from Virginia on horseback. Life Insurance agents in Georgia solicit poli cies by advertisements printed on sugar-plums and sent to the farmers' children. An Indiana groom was ninety-one, and the bride one hundred and six. The were mar ried without the consent of their parents. John Slidell left no will, and as there are no heirs to his confiscated lands In Louisiana,' our Uncle Sam Intends to take possession. An ill l natured contemporary says that Rhodsatrand goes for narrow-gauge railroads because she wants both rails to lie within her own territory. A LLENTOIVN, PA NEW DESIGNS Itensove His Shoes =I